The following is a list of the broad areas of coverage that appear across the specifications represented at this meeting.
Name (Working term) | Area of coverage | Examples |
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Spatial and geographic | Information required for describing geographic information and services (e.g. ISO 19115) | ISO 19115 |
Temporal | Information required for describing time-based characteristics of the data (e.g. the date of publication, a time stamp) |
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Contributors | People, organisations, agents, ... |
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Process | Description of processes, workflows, transformations, ... |
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Provenance | (Related to process) Descriptions of the process used to create/produce/transform/publish data | PROV-O, PREMIS |
Vocabularies/lists/classifications | Enumerated lists of terms that may be applied to content being described. | ISCO, SNOMED, ICD-9 |
Resources | Objects being described or referenced. |
Includes May include datasets, but also publications, software, code, other metadata, ... | DDI2.5 Related Publication??? |
Datasets | Specific descriptions of datasets as primary objects |
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Observation/Capture | Classes/objects that describe the processes by which data is created, generated, captured, transformed. (QUESTION: Is this the same as Provenance/Process?) |
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Data | The logical structure of the data being described - variables, units of measurement, concepts, sample units and populations, records, datum(s), cells. (May or may not be a subset of datasets) |
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Storage | The physical representation of the data (files, formats, locations, ...) |
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Access | Who can access the data and how |
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Administrative/core/... | Foundational classes for use in building the specification - e.g. identification, versioning, primitives |
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